Metal & Heat

"But it's his hands that give away his enduring love; they are large (he wears a size 12 1/4 ring), square and rough from constant handling of metal and heat."

Read more here.

(Please note: it's actually the second graf that's the lede...for some reason online, the photo cutline has been made the first graf. Whoops!)

Iron Chef, sort of

"But even amid the vying for food and prizes, it's the Red Clay Chef Competition that may be the most tensely cutthroat event of the evening.

"Or maybe not."

Read all about it here.

New article

From my last Athens Banner-Herald story on an historic art exhibit inspired by Jimmy Carter:

"(Laurie) Anderson's 'Film Song in 24/24 Time' starts out as a music score drawn in pencil, its dark dots and number seven-shaped notes looking like a secret code, and transforms into a series of tiny photographs, aligned to keep the flow of the music sheet.

"Black squares of film sandwiched between images of clasped hands and dramatically posed bodies make the photos have the same staccato rhythm of the music score's harsh dots."

Read the rest here. Again, free registration is required (It's free! It's quick!).

Today's article

"She treats family portraits of strangers, culled from junk store boxes, with equal reverence, giving each photo a wreath of delicate found objects: gnarled arrowheads, bleached shells, crinkley leaves and curving okra pods and blossoms. The assemblage might appear at first glance to be the detached result of an archaeological dig, but the viewer feels an undeniable meaning to the arrangement."

Read the rest of my Athens Banner-Herald article on UGA professor Mary Ruth Moore's photography exhibit here . Registration is required, but it's free and quick and fairly non-invasive.